Bristol Blotter 09-03-10

By: Claire Galofaro | TriCities.com
Published: September 02, 2010

Bristol Virginia Police Department
Aug. 31

A Second Street woman called to say “her neighbor is in her house cussing her and won’t leave.”
Somebody called about a drunken man driving a green Jeep Wrangler with a “very intoxicated” pregnant lady in the passenger seat.
A Scott Street mother called about her “5-year-old son who is out of control and she is unable to do anything with him.” She said the kindergartner is “being expelled from school for his behavior” and she wanted an officer to talk some sense into him.
Someone called from a West Mary Street apartment building to report a “suspicious acting” man with his “blue jeans down to his knees.” He passed by the apartment complex, “bummed a cigarette,” then continued on down the road.

Sept. 1

A McKinley Avenue woman called when her dog started barking and she noticed “two subjects with hoodies” run “towards the back of her place.”

Bristol Tennessee Police Department
Aug. 23

At 8 a.m., a Broad Street man “observed what appeared to be an orange paper-like trash bag on the hood of his truck” parked on his front lawn. When he found burn marks underneath, it occurred to him that “the night before, there were similar objects being flown in the air by fireworks in the form of homemade hot air balloons.”

Aug. 30

As a guy drove down Windsor Avenue, “someone threw a wood-carved hand at his vehicle and hit the front bumper.” Police checked the area, but did not find the wooden hand.
Somebody called from Broad Street to report two seemingly vicious dogs in their neighbors’ trailer “and the window is open and the dogs knocked out the screen.” The neighbor was worried that the gnarling dogs would leap out of the window. The neighbor said that the dogs’ owner was out of town, but someone has been coming by to care for the animals. Police “attempted to go to the window and close it so the dogs could not get out, but the dogs would not let [them] get close to the window.” So an officer “distracted the dogs by knocking on the window on the other side of the trailer and a neighbor used a rake to close the window.”

Neighborhood Watch

The Bursons Corner neighborhood watch will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the Goodson-Kinderhook Volunteer Fire Department station on Benhams Road in Bristol, Va.
The Eagle Ridge Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at High Point Elementary School on Sinking Creek Road in Bristol, Va.
The Fairmount Avenue neighborhood watch will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday at 1211 Fairmount Avenue in Bristol, Va.
Anyone interested in starting a neighborhood watch in Bristol, Va., should contact Nicole Slagle, crime prevention specialist with the Bristol Virginia Police Department, at (276) 645-7281.
Anyone interested in starting a neighborhood watch in Wise County should contact Sgt. Chuck Stapleton, crime prevention officer with the Wise County Sheriff’s Office, at (276) 328-3566.